Sunday, May 31, 2015

September 1966. "COLOR ME IN SPACE! Meet William Shatner as captain of the U. S. S. Enterprise, a cruiser-si-e space ship, to be seen in the new NBC-TV series titled STAR TREK, in color. Co-stars in this series include Leonard Nimoy and Paul Fix."

Okay Trekkies, I thought I knew the names of all the major players in STAR TREK, but who is Paul Fix? I watched STAR TREK all the time when I was a child but do not remember an actor by the name of Paul Fix being on the show.

Friday, May 29, 2015

1984. SUPERGIRL Cut-Out Paper Doll Book by Tom Tierney. Grosset & Dunlap, New York. A very pretty Supergirl paper doll based on the movie. In my head as I post this I can hear Barbra Streisand singing her Superman song.

Thursday, May 28, 2015

1968. "Baby's Hungry!" Paper Doll Book. Whitman Publishing Division. Western Publishing Company. Another of my childhood paper dolls. I did not play with this paper doll very often (see, no tape on her) because she was so much bigger than my other paper dolls. This paper doll was based on an actual doll from Mattel.

Friday, May 22, 2015

April 16, 1933. "Dear Kids, As long as you keep insisting -- here you are, but please don't send me letters and stamps for dolls after they appear in your paper. So read your Sunday paper. Thanks, Love and Kisses, Uncle Ham." A JOE PALOOKA paper doll from the comic strip of the same name.

June 11, 1933. Here is a paper doll of KNOBBY from the JOE PALOOKA comic strip.

Sunday, May 17, 2015

September 12, 1966. "It's Monkee Business with THE MONKEES! This musical group called the Monkees - Peter Tork, Mickey Dolen-, Mike Nesmith and David Jones - are shown above in a scene from their NBC-TV comedy series, THE MONKEES, broadcast in color Monday evenings on Station WHIS-TV, Channel 6, at 7:30. Color them hilarious as part of your entry in the NBC-TV Coloring Contest." (Sorry Mickey, the last letter of the alphabet key does not work on my computer.)

Saturday, May 9, 2015

September 1966. "Color them Fantastic! Here are Larry Hagman and Barbara Eden in a scene from their fantastic fantasy NBC comedy series, I DREAM OF JEANNIE, to be seen in color on Station WHIS-TV, Channel 6, in their new time period - Mondays at 8:00. This is the latest in a series of drawings for you to color in as part of the NBC-TV coloring contest."
I am trying to clean up all of the pictures in this coloring contest series. I remember watching all of the shows that appear in this contest. Okay, get your colors and make Barbara Eden a blonde and she is Jeannie. Make Barbara Eden a brunette and she is Jeannie's evil twin cousin - I do not remember her name.
When I came across this contest in a newspaper, well, it made me very HAPPY!!

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

October 09, 1932. "Here's Ma Palooka with a few of the scrumptious clothes and jewels which her pride and joy, otherwise Joseph, bought for her." This Ma Palooka paper doll is from the comic strip "Joe Palooka".

April 2015. This mural of a Houston postcard is on the side of an ice cream shop here in the Houston Heights. It is about six blocks from my home. I send my greetings to everyone around the world that like paper dolls, paper toys, post cards and other assorted wonderful paper ephemera.